mad dog in the fog

• MLB.com Streams Live Baseball Games to the iPhone - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  Very cool. This app keeps getting better and better.
  (tags: iphoneapps mlb baseball)
• Are you really Sirius? Streaming radio iPhone app expected this week
  Looking forward to this app.
  (tags: sirius xm iphoneapps streaming)

Rainforest Exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences
in Golden Gate Park. More photos here

• How Intuit managed to hold off Microsoft | Beyond Binary - CNET News
  “Intuit is one of the few companies to take Microsoft head-on on its home turf–packaged software–and come out on top. Even more notably, Intuit has managed to do it several times, with Quicken of course, but also with QuickBooks and TurboTax.  Of course, it was more than just Intuit’s success that led to Money’s demise, which CNET News first reported on Wednesday. The product was ultimately doomed by several factors, including a shift away from packaged software, the rise of Internet-based rivals like Mint.com, and a brutal economy that has forced Microsoft to scale back ambitions in several areas.”
  (tags: business intuit personalfinance microsoft)

• TechCrunchIT (Steve Gillmor): Why Apple wins. every. time.
  "Apple’s rigorous march forward and its deep understanding of what the market will want next is not only keeping them ahead of the competition but building the markets they will own tomorrow. They’re like WIllie Mays and the basket catch, making the hard stuff look easy."
  (tags: apple iphone iphone3gs innovation)

• Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms (SF Weekly)
  "To encounter the laid-off twenty- and thirtysomethings blogging about unemployed life or roaming this city's bars, museums, and parks on weekday afternoons is to witness a weirdly upbeat portrait emerge. This is no Lost Generation, but a generation that, through loss of work, claims to be finding itself — and having fun along the way."
  (tags: sanfrancisco jobhunting)

• Google Wave: Finally, Innovation » Webomatica
  "I’ll reserve final judgment until I actually get to play with Wave, but at this point, I’m ready to forget about streams and get to the ocean, where the waves reside."
  (tags: google realtimeweb googlewave)
• Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions
  Another positive review of Google Wave.
  (tags: google realtimeweb googlewave)
• Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful | Webware - CNET
  An early review of Google Wave.
  (tags: google realtimeweb googlewave)

• Recruiting Via Your Employees’ Social Networks - NYTimes.com
  "Until recently, Facebook might have been more likely to be viewed as a barrier to getting a job. Cautionary tales circulate of job offers rescinded after an employer discovered unseemly content on an applicant’s Facebook page. Social network users have been advised to sanitize their personal pages when job hunting, lest potential employers spot an inappropriate photo or comment.

  But now more personal pages, profiles and social networks are serving as fodder for companies looking to fill jobs. To mine its employees’ social networking contacts for potential hires, a business can pay for services from companies like Appirio or Jobvite, whose service Mr. Kennedy used."

  (tags: jobhunting socialnetworking)

• TechCrunch: Google Wave: The Full Video From Google IO
  (tags: google realtimeweb)

• D7 Interview: Twitter Co-CEOs Biz Stone and Evan Williams | D7 Highlights | AllThingsD
  (tags: twitter)

Photos from my recent trip to India (Flickr)